March 7, Apple released a firmware update iOS 5, giving users a number of new features. In just a couple of weeks, 61% of all iPad and iPhone users worldwide have installed iOS 5.1. And more than half of all devices from Apple over the world.

This result was David Smith, the developer of Audiobooks for iOS. Programmer conducted its own research in the field updates. For more detailed data it is worth remembering November 10, when Apple released iOS 5.0.1. Starting with this firmware version users can upgrade mode OTA, as if to speak in simple words - "on air". March 7 all have that same opportunity - to update a "cloud".

What do you think, how popular was the function OTA? Unexpectedly, but more than anything.

David presented the data in the form of diagrams, which we will try to "decipher."

First, as of March 6, less than 2% of the users 'sitting' on firmware iOS 3 to iOS 4 was approximately 21% Last Seen on iOS 5.0 - 2% and 5.0.1 as much as 75%. To date, the numbers have changed.

Firmware 3.X, 4, X and 5.0 remain at the same level, but 5.0.1 has slipped to 18% and 61% occurred in users of 5.1.

Of these, 77% of the updated "on air".

Here it is worth considering the fact that iOS 5.1 is not compromised and, as you can see, people do not rush to jailbreak and for the most part - it is a good indicator of "good faith" the owners of i-devices.

Another article is a bit on the profile of our blog, but we could not ignore this luxury phone from the Dutch company Bellperre International.

This Bellperre is made of brushed stainless steel and trimmed with black iguana skin, as in phones have Bellperre coated with 24 carat yellow gold, 18K pink gold, steel and polished steel with black finish, just in the finishing of high quality leather used pure exotic reptiles , shark, buffalo. Results in the range of more than 140 different options for materials used and color, but not all models are available in a localized version. Yes, yes, all the phones for sale are located in the territory of the CIS countries, and are factory Russified keyboard and operating instructions in Russian.

All phones Bellperre collected by hand in the Netherlands and is a work of art!

But first, the packaging:

In the large white box, packed in plastic foam is a bag with a wooden box in which laid the phone and accessories:

box covered with black paint, and looks like a jewelry box:

Detail, as in the phone, and in its packaging designers Bellperre paid particular attention to:

Steve Jobs has often talked to ordinary people, sometimes responding to them in the mail. Any correspondence is most often evoked response in the society, or at least, there was a heated discussion. Tim Cook, the current head of Apple, too, is not lost and willingly answers questions and complaints of consumers.

There are many stories and one of them occurred recently. She shared the readers of 9to5mac.

A resident of the United States was going to move to Canada, as required by his job. It has long been the guy used his iPhone 3GS, which was "bound" to the operator AT & T in America. He appealed to the support of AT & T and asked him to unlock the phone for future use. Naturally, he entered the refusal. Without hesitation, the reader is asked to 9to5mac Apple, but they replied that such questions are decided by only a very Telecompaper. What a surprise it was a guy, when a second time to access AT & T responded to him: - "Make a jailbreak and no problems!". Given that our hero was not a supporter of such decisions, he decided to write a letter himself to Tim Cook.

Tim himself has not responded to the letter, but called the AT & T and asked to unlock your phone. This was told by a representative of the cellular operator, which is called after the incident to the reader. After a brief conversation, during which was confirmed by IMEI-ID iPhone 3GS, the phone unblocked. Besides, the guy explained that his case - an exception to the rule, and after a while his wife was contacted by a personal assistant to Tim Cook, who said everything was in order.

It looked funny:

"In the middle of the day, my wife sends e-mail -« Cook's assistant called and asked whether the unlocked AT & T your phone. Where is Tim Cook is interested in your phone!? "